Three areas of strength

Ivoclar Vivadent operates in three product areas. In these three areas we offer dentists and dental technicians products and product systems that support
them across the entire treatment and fabrication process and enable them to achieve esthetic results.

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Dental technician Erwin Eitler from Zahnmanufaktur Zimmermann und Mäder AG in Bern/Switzerland was given an unusual assignment: crafting the dentures for his own grandmother. This interview tells you more about this extraordinary case. Find out why the interviewee describes complete denture prosthetics as the supreme discipline in dentistry and what he thinks of the future relevance of prosthetics.

Dr Mirela Feraru and Prof. Dr Nitzan Bichacho from Israel show that it can be done: International collaboration on clinical cases is no longer a problem. Together with dental technician Stefano Inglese from Italy, they have successfully solved a very demanding clinical case – across borders and beyond language barriers.

Digital methods are revolutionizing dentistry. They are offering dental professionals new ways of analyzing dental occlusion, for example, by visualizing jaw movements in real time. Furthermore, digital technologies are bringing together fields that had little to do with each other in the past. Consequently, dentistry has become an interesting field for mathematicians and computer scientists such as Dr Sebastian Ruge from Greifswald (Germany). Read his story.

Most patients would like their restorations to be indistinguishable from their natural teeth. In an effort to fulfil this wish, many dentists use highly esthetic materials, for example, lithium disilicate or leucite-reinforced glass-ceramics and composite resins.

Dr Mark Bowes from South Africa recently toured several countries in Europe. On this trip he paid a visit to Ivoclar Vivadent AG in the picturesque Principality of Liechtenstein. We took this opportunity to ask him a few questions. Read what Dr Bowes has to say about minimally invasive dentistry, precise planning and the emotional benefits of dentistry. Find out what trends he predicts in dentistry in the following interview.
Six questions for Dr Mark Bowes, owner of a private dental practice in Cape Town, South Africa